Qwen3-4B vs deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
7.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
6.9 B
Context
4,096
30d
722 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5
Parameters 4.0 B 6.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 7,098,338 722,119
Downloads all time 80.4 M 3.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-01-25

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

7.3 M484 K
Qwen3-4B deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
deepseek-coder-7b-instruct-v1.5 · fp16 16.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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